Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1993, 4:52 PM CDT for Edgar County, Illinois. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1993, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1993, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edgar County, IL
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 302 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3775 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 971 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 1:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 18, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
ILZ005>007-182100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 250 PM CDT SUN JUL 18 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL ILLINOIS... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM ABOUT MENDOTA...30 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF MARSEILLES...TO PEORIA AT 245 PM. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR BRADFORD...35 MILES NORTH OF PEORIA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH OR GREATER AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH AND ARE EXPECTED TO BE ALONG AND JUST EAST OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER FROM LASALLE TO ABOUT METAMORA AROUND 330 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 700 PM. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS THE NEXT 12 HOURS SO A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV...FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MILLER v~j.8"8" + 6WWUS 45W 6WWUS (7q4WSUS *6WWUSb 0XWSUS& y6WWUS 7`WWUS: 8ELOW 1 N\6#FXUS OFNDIT IMPNG FROM W WIYHWWNZJ6 S6WWUS `3U^WSUS RFPUS;96WWUSL H S. FPUS*6WWUSR H 200 UTC N:6j \OUTHEASTH.ONDAo6WWUS* NCE q6WWUSr tt6WWUS $LE #FXUS S.UTHEAST |-FPAK RAINw6 WUUS o WUUS ]96WWUS| XWOUS(J j&6WWUS$ @ (|m)FPUSYN6WWUSx l6WWUS |I7`WWUS MWWUS G>6WWUSn FAUS
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 2:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
ILZ005>007-182100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 250 PM CDT SUN JUL 18 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL ILLINOIS... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM ABOUT MENDOTA...30 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF MARSEILLES...TO PEORIA AT 245 PM. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR BRADFORD...35 MILES NORTH OF PEORIA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH OR GREATER AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH AND ARE EXPECTED TO BE ALONG AND JUST EAST OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER FROM LASALLE TO ABOUT METAMORA AROUND 330 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 700 PM. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS THE NEXT 12 HOURS SO A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV...FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MILLER
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 3:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
ILZ009-10-182115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD IL 3 45 PM CDT SUN JUL 18 1993 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE OVER CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 3 40 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...5 MILES WEST OF PETERSBURG TO 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST LOUIS MISSOURI. ALSO...SCATTERED SHOWERS HAD REDEVELOPED 20 MILES SOUTH OF CHAMPAIGN. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. PEARSON
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:07 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
ILZ005>007-182200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 410 PM CDT SUN JUL 18 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL ILLINOIS... THUNDERSTORMS...WITH PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS... DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL...WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS. A BATCH OF THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE PEORIA AREA...WHERE THE HEART OF ILLINOIS FAIR IS TAKING PLACE...BETWEEN NOW AND 500 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL 700 PM. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS THE NEXT 12 HOURS SO A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV...FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MILLER
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:10 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
ILZ005>007-182200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEORIA IL 410 PM CDT SUN JUL 18 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL ILLINOIS... THUNDERSTORMS...WITH PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS... DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL...WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ILLINOIS. A BATCH OF THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE PEORIA AREA...WHERE THE HEART OF ILLINOIS FAIR IS TAKING PLACE...BETWEEN NOW AND 500 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 10:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 62 min |
| Jul 18, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard | 56 min |
| Jul 18, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | DeKalb | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 21 min |
| Jul 18, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.